Bioscience Reports has been made aware of potential issues surrounding the scientific validity of this paper and is hence issuing a permanent Expression of Concern to notify readers.Specifically, it was noted that the second and third Figure 1C CXCR4 bands are highly similar to the first two Figure 5B TLR-4 bands of the article Fang and Jiang, 2016 (DOI: 10.1042/BSR20160118). The authors provided raw data but concerns remain.As such, the article will remain published but with an associated Expression of Concern.
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